THOMAS PRATT WILSON
Submitted by William R. (Bill) Massey
This is Thomas Pratt Wilson, picture taken just before the Civil War began. He was married to Rebecca Leah Dysart of Farmington, Tennessee, in 1859. He eventually earned the rank of First Sergeant in the 10th Tennessee Infantry, USA, a regiment which was used to guard important railroads and also to serve as a bodyguard regiment to Military Governor Andrew Johnson who was receiving death threats from Confederate sympathizers in Nashville. He was a schoolteacher by trade and was born in Newberry, South Carolina, but moved to Farmington, Tennessee, just northeast of Lewisburg, when he was a young man. He was an abolitionist and also opposed secession. Wilson joined the U. S. Army in March of 1863 in Shelbyville, TN, and was mustered in at Murfreesboro. He served at first in Co. G and then Co. I of the 10th Tennessee Infantry, Union Army, until his death due to smallpox in Hospital No. 11 at Nashville, TN, on April 5, 1865. He left behind a pregnant widow and two tiny children, one of whom was my great grandfather, Samuel Andrew Stirling Wilson. T. P., as he was called, was one of the first soldiers to be buried in the new Nashville National Military Cemetery off of Gallatin Road. He rests in the oldest part of the cemetery just east of the railroad bridge.
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